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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carter may be bad, but we do not need a President with so many skeletons in his background either. Surely the Democrats can come up with a person who would be not only a strong leader but also someone we and our children could look...
...Medicare for the aged and Medicaid assistance for the poor would be merged into a single, more generous "Healthcare" program; for example, no elderly person now on Medicare would have to pay more than $1,250 a year for treatment...
...behind-the-mirror world of Washington, where many things are curiouser and curiouser, and even the knaves have to run faster to keep up, Alice Rivlin is the self-professed "official purveyor of bad news to the Congress." As head of the Congressional Budget Office, she and her 200-person staff figure out what proposed programs will really cost, and her cool counsel has stopped many of them in the gleam-in-the-eye stage...
...education just plods along behind all that." The dean compares educational policy to urban policy, saying that somebody must risk making clear and controversial arguments. "You have to put somebody in charge if you're going to get a coherent policy," he says, adding, "I would rather have one person in charge--even to shoot at--to clarify policy rather than run around to 1000 different departments with different responsibilities...
Proponents of the bill insist education is an issue vital enough to the national interest to merit the status and visibility that a Cabinet-level position implies. Because there is no one person who speaks for education--and consequently no one person to blame for national educational failures--supporters argue that a national spokesman for education is needed. Packer argues that elevating education to Cabinet status will help improve its status and visibility. "President Carter has said education has only been brought up twice in Cabinet meetings," he notes, adding that a new department would insure that educational programs...